SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Alt Inc. (CEO: Kazutaka Yonekura; headquarters: Koto-ku, Tokyo) is
pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Hitoshi Matsubara, president
of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI), as its
technology adviser.

Dr. Matsubara will guide Alt Inc.’s research and development of the
world’s first Personal Artificial Intelligence (P.A.I.), in the name of
al+ (pronounced as “altz”).

Dr. Matsubara is well-known as a pioneer in the field of artificial
intelligence in Japan. The wealth of experience and knowledge in the
discipline he will bring to the company’s development team is expected
to strengthen its artificial intelligence technology and engineering
capabilities.

Profile of Dr. Hitoshi Matsubara

Graduated from Tokyo University’s Graduate School of Information
Technology and Science in 1986.

Joined the Electrotechnical Laboratory, Agency of Industrial Science
and Technology, Ministry of International Trade and Industry, in 1986.

Obtained Ph.D. from Tokyo University in March 1986.

The first recipient of the Computer Shogi Association (CSA) Award.

Recipient of CSA Author Award.

Served as secretary and chair of the Game Informatics Research Group,
the Information Processing Society of Japan.

Served as chair and executive director, the RoboCup Japanese National
Committee.

Currently professor, School of Systems Information Science, Future
University Hakodate, and president of the Japanese Society of
Artificial Intelligence.

Background of the appointment

In recent years artificial intelligence has been attracting much
attention in a number of areas. Gartner Research projects that the
artificial intelligence industry will grow to 4.8 trillion yen by 2027.
Alt Inc. is aiming to become the frontrunner in this field in Asia, and
one of its strategies is to actively seek out knowledge and expertise in
and out of the company. Dr. Matsubara will provide advice on the
development of artificial intelligence and related products based on his
advanced expertise in the field. Alt Inc. hopes to advance its
technologies and accelerate the project development, thus pushing
forward to a world where artificial intelligence works for better
communities.

What is al+?

al+ is a P.A.I. application that acquires and learns the user’s thinking
patterns through its linkage to a broad range of SNS (Social Network
System) and applications the user regularly utilizes. al+ thus generates
a virtual copy of the user’s personality on the application. al+ has
three engines offering three levels of artificial intelligence and
integrates these different intelligences to produce more flexible and
human-like cognitive functions.

It also features macro analytical monitoring of the collective behavior
of al+ users at all times, and independently learns from that virtual
community of users those thought patterns which can’t be gleaned from a
single user. As the number of users grows, the improvement in the
precision of its community thinking will accelerate, and this will, in
turn, improve the accuracy of learning the cognitive workings of
individual users.

Alt Inc.’s goal is to apply these features of al+ to fully realize the
re-creation of individual user personalities through P.A.I.